After checking out a few more other journals and etc, I have to ask whether this is the correct conclusion:

The Mayfield mods will post an event. Everyone is welcome to comment on their main page. At the same time, everyone else has to post something new on their own page as well, letting others know what their character is doing. The lifejournal post for each character isn't on a daily basis, but when there is a major plot event, everyone has to post. Is this correct?

And apparently, applications are only open in early September. I'll just have to wait it out I guess. I'm thinking of going for Ms.Pauling, Makani's Meet the Director comic made her so much more than the Administrator's floor mat.

No, events are not mandatory, but obviously encouraged, as participating in events is what gets you your stuff/powers back. You are, however, required to either make a post of at least seven sentences long or be in a comment chain at least four comments long each month, or your character fails activity check and idles out.

1) I noticed that people tend to write things like multiple actions. Are these "prompts"? Are prompts events that happen to the character that whole day one after another? What happens if, let's say, I have Ms Pauling at the park as a prompt. Someone posts that they have a convo, and the both of them decide to go somewhere else to continue the convo. But then before I get to this with the first person, some other person posts a new dialogue with her. How does the timeline work then in this scenario? Do I assume that the first person's conversation and Ms Pauling's subsequent decision to follow this person somewhere else happens at the end? Or is there no continuity involved here?

2) What is CR? It seems to be something mentioned a lot that people want.

3) Do I need to change my userpic for my character with every new post?

4) What should I tag with each post? I know I should tag mayfield and Miss Pauling, but should I tag anything else?

5) I was wondering whether I could live in the same house with the RED Sniper? It'd be a real treat for me, seeing as dotchan's a really great RED Sniper. Plus, headcanon has Miss Pauling as a gun-fanatic (collector and semi-decent user), seeing as she reads gun catalogs. Seems to me she wouldn't be afraid of the mercenaries at all.

Lastly, should I keep posting my questions here? Or should I just email them directly to you dotchan? Just worried that I'm spamming the thread too much.

In Mayfield, people like to give other players multiple opportunities to meet each other, so they'll set up various scenarios so that other characters would be likelier to run into them. (Some of our characters are social butterflies and will say hello to anyone they run into on the street, others tend to keep to certain areas and.)

Continuity tends to be dilated, comic-book-time style, happening in "handwavey now-ish" whenever you post unless you're specifically back-dating or forward-dating for event purposes. You totally can have multiple conversations at the same time even if you got invited to a soda with Character A while she's feeding the ducks with Character B.

> 2) What is CR? It seems to be something mentioned a lot that people want.

"Character relationships".

> 3) Do I need to change my userpic for my character with every new post?

Not at all. I started LJ-RPing all the way back when they only had three icons for free accounts, so I often forget to use the full set of 15. Then, when the need for more icon space arose, I just abused LJ's "gallery" function.

> 4) What should I tag with each post? I know I should tag mayfield and Miss Pauling, but should I tag anything else?

That's up to you. Some people like to be super organized based on characters they've interacted with while other people like adding silly tags.

> 5) Housing

That'd be awesome! The Sniper could use some non-drone housemates, and having Miss Pauling as his Mayfield wife could lead to all kinds of hilarity.

Lastly, should I keep posting my questions here? Or should I just email them directly to you dotchan? Just worried that I'm spamming the thread too much. Just shoot me a PM when you're ready to apply so I can give permission.

Feel free to ask other questions in this thread unless they pertain to your application in specific.

Sure, Mayfield is a pretty big game, but compared to another big game I've been in (Amat/that sex island game), it moves pretty slowly. I mean, in Amat if you were gone for like a week you'd miss a lot of shit, but in Mayfield if you miss a week, good chances are not much has happened. A month might hurt, but a month might hurt in any game, really.

Besides, it's not like you have to talk to/keep up with EVERY SINGLE PLAYER or whatever.

Seeing as the date for applications draw nearer and nearer, I have a few more questions about Mayfield RPing.

How does time go like in Mayfield, as compared to the TF2 universe? I'd like to know how long the TF2 characters in Mayfield have been there, and how long that would equate to back in the TF2 universe.

Would I still get to participate in the Summer event? I read that you can get regains by participating in events.

Most of the background story for Ms Pauling that I'll be using in Mayfield is chiefly headcanon. That won't be a problem with you guys, right?

Time in Mayfield flows differently. Either very little or no time passes in the "real world". So even though BLU Scout, our current longest stayed class, has been there for something like three years, should he ever return to TF2land it'll be like he never left.

Headcanon is fine--hell, for TF2 characters, it's practically necessary, but for the mods I suggest you state what's actual canon and what you made up for purposes of RP. (Because Miss Pauling is a very minor character, I don't know how the Mods would rule on an app, but definitely at least do the number of paragraphs they ask for.)

...and I've dropped out of Mayfield altogether, meaning that A) RED Sniper and BLU Spy are free to be apped, and B) somebody else will have to keep track of what's going on there because I don't really feel like posting about a community where I'm not participating in.

Aww, thanks! I liked playing Sniper, too, it was fun throwing him into situations where his skillset was bloody useless.

I hope I'm not out of RP forever, but my current job is a major drain on my mental energy. I can, theoretically, take up playing again somewhere if the pace is slow enough and I can figure out how not to kill myself with pretendy fun times, but don't bet on it. The way I roleplay is rather similar to Method Acting, wherein I often end up feeling the way my characters do, and I've literally made myself ill because I was taking on too much emotional drama.